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George P. Bush says dad 'moving forward' on 2016

By KEN THOMAS 1 hour ago



Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, left, with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, right, speaks to reporters after a Haley campaign event on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, in Lexington, S.C. Haley said she was proud to campaign for he re-election with Bush because she would never be leading South Carolina without Bush's help. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeb Bush is "moving forward" on a potential 2016 White House run and it appears more likely he'll enter the Republican race. That's the opinion of his son, who's running for office in Texas.

George P. Bush tells ABC's "This Week" that his father is "still assessing" a presidential bid, but it seems more likely he'll seek the presidency this time. The former Florida governor declined to run for president in 2012 despite encouragement from Republicans.

George P. Bush is running for Texas land commissioner. He says his family would be "100 percent" behind his father if he decides to run for president.

Jeb Bush is the brother of former President George W. Bush and the son of former President George H.W. Bush.


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Jeb Bush vs Hillary Clinton would illustrate clearly why America is going down hill so fast today!

Royal dynasties ruling America.

W

http://www.alipac.us/f12/hillary-cli...merica-313119/

If Jeb is the best decrepit politician that the GOP has to offer than I will be voting for HITLERy Clinton

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Jeb Bush vs Hillary Clinton would illustrate clearly why America is going down hill so fast today!

Royal dynasties ruling America.

W

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By Raf Sanchez, Charlotte, North Carolina
6:22PM GMT 26 Oct 2014


There is no doubt in Rachel Mannlein-Hochman’s mind.

As she stands in a crowd of cheering Democrats waiting for Hillary Clinton to appear onstage in North Carolina, she points to the button pinned to her lapel: Hillary 2016.

“She’s going to run again,” Ms Mannlein-Hochman says. “She’s taking a second chance for herself and she’s giving the country a second chance to elect her.”

The 52-year-old New Yorker is one of the 18 million Americans who gave their faith and their votes to Hillary Clinton in 2008, only to watch as Barack Obama snatched victory.

For most of them, the prospect of their heroine making another bid for the White House in 2016 is an electrifying chance to rewrite history. And for some, it is a chance to correct a national mistake made six years ago.

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Standing a few feet from Ms Mannlein-Hochman, Riki Harper’s face darkens as she remembers the day in 2008 when Mrs Clinton admitted defeat.

The 39-year-old was in a noisy Florida restaurant and barely able to hear as Mrs Clinton conceded she was unable to break “that highest, hardest glass ceiling” that kept women from the White House.

"I just felt so lost," Mrs Harper remembers. "I wasn't for Obama then and I'm still not really now. I thought it was Hillary's time."

^{Hillary Clinton addresses her supporters as her daughter Chelsea and her husband Bill Clinton watch in 2008 (AP)}

Some Hillary loyalists vented their anger by forming a group called PUMA (Party Unity My A**) and refusing to accept anyone but Mrs Clinton as their party leader. Others went out to actively campaign for John McCain in 2008.

Most, like Mrs Harper, grudgingly cast their ballots for Mr Obama, if only to keep Sarah Palin from becoming vice-president. But as they watched the current president lurch through crises at home and abroad, many returned to a persistent conclusion: Hillary would be doing this better.

Lee Calvert, a 51-year-old gay man wearing a teeshirt emblazoned with a Hillary “H” wrapped in a rainbow flag, said he felt Mrs Clinton would have been stronger on foreign policy than the current occupant of the Oval Office.

“He sort of steps back and he’s more professorial,” Mr Calvert said. “I think Hillary Clinton would have been more forceful.”

Like many others in the crowd, he said Mrs Clinton would be an even stronger candidate in 2016 than she was in six years ago, brushing aside concerns about her age - 67 - or that her political skills had rusted over time.

“If she wants to run, it’s hers. The only thing that will stop her is herself.”

Both he and his friend Mark Donahue, who wore a matching shirt, said they had donated to the Clinton campaign in 2008 and were prepared to do so again.

“We’ll cut cheques until it hurts,” laughs Mr Donahue, who first shook Mrs Clinton’s hand in 1992 as she campaigned in North Carolina in the final days of her husband’s presidential campaign. “I’ve been a Clinton fan for a long time,” he says.

For now at least, there is no official Clinton campaign for supporters like Mr Donahue to cut cheques to. Instead their dollars and their enthusiasm can be channelled towards Ready for Hillary, a proxy campaign set up by Clinton loyalists to drum up support ahead of an official announcement.

When and if that announcement will come has become a new form of Kremlinology for America’s political watchers, who Mrs Clinton seems to delight in teasing.

Onstage in North Carolina, she gave no outright confirmations but she dropped a few suggestive hints of her ambitions.

Reflecting on the birth of her first one-month-old grandchild, Charlotte, she joked: “I still have that grandmother glow”.

But she added that “there’s nothing that gets your mind concentrated more about the future” than the birth of a new child - a line that sparked cries of “Run, Hillary, run!” from some in the crowd.

As the most powerful woman in American politics left the stage for the next stop on a campaign blitz that is taking her across the country ahead of next week’s Congressional elections, Ms Mannlein-Hochman said she was not disappointed at not getting a firmer signal.

“We saw the 45th President of the United States today. That’s pretty exciting.”

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The Bushes, Led by W., Rally to Make Jeb ‘45’

The New York Times
PETER BAKER10 hrs ago

© Jim Cole/Associated Press Jeb, center, in August 1989 with his father, President George H.W. Bush, and brother George W. off the Maine coast near Kennebunkport.

WASHINGTON — When Jeb Bush decides whether to run for president, there will be no family meeting à la Mitt Romney, no gathering at Walker’s Point in Kennebunkport to go over the pros and cons. “I don’t think it’ll be like a big internal straw poll,” said his son, Jeb Bush Jr.
But if there were, the results of the poll are pretty much in. As Mr. Bush nears a decision to become the third member of his storied family to seek the presidency, the extended Bush clan and its attendant network, albeit with one prominent exception, are largely rallying behind the prospect and pulling the old machine out of the closet.
“No question,” Jeb Jr. said in an interview, “people are getting fired up about it — donors and people who have been around the political process for a while, people he’s known in Tallahassee when he was governor. The family, we’re geared up either way.” Most important, he added, his mother, Columba, the prospective candidate’s politics-averse wife, has given her assent.
Within the family, the top cheerleaders have been George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, both of whom know something about running for president, and both of whom have an interest in perpetuating, if not redeeming, the family legacy. Barbara Bush, the former first lady and Jeb Bush’s mother, remains opposed, according to people close to the family, but has been persuaded to stop saying it so publicly. George P. Bush, his other son, who is running for Texas land commissioner, has been supportive of what he calls a likely run.
And then there is the larger Bush clan, the vast constellation of friends, advisers, strategists, pollsters, fund-raisers, donors and supporters assembled over several generations in public life. With Jeb Bush, the former two-term governor of Florida, comes one more chance to reach the top. “They’re like horses in the stall waiting for the gate to break,” said one family insider who has known Jeb Bush for decades and like others did not want to be named. “They’re all jumping up and down.”
Just six years ago, at the end of the last tumultuous Bush presidency, this would have been all but unthinkable. But President Obama’s troubles, the internal divisions of the Republican Party, a newfound nostalgia for the first Bush presidency and a modest softening of views about the second have changed the dynamics enough to make plausible another Bush candidacy. And while Jeb Bush wants to run as his own man, invariably this is a family with something to prove.
For the elder Mr. Bush, Jeb was always the son expected to go far in politics, the serious one with drive to spare. After George W. gave up drinking and surpassed his brother, the elder Mr. Bush still harbored ambitions for the second son. Now 90 and in fading health, Mr. Bush has been animated about a possible Jeb campaign, according to friends.
“If it were up to his father, he would be a candidate,” said Jim McGrath, a spokesman for the former president. But the Bushes are wary of the presumption of a dynasty.
“They’re very sensitive to the idea that anyone might think the family feels entitled to the nomination,” Mr. McGrath said. “First of all, it just wouldn’t be true. And second of all, they understand it would be poison to a candidacy if that perception were ever to get out there.”
As for George W., he has not been especially close to Jeb, who is seven years younger. By all accounts, the former president is closer to their younger brother, Marvin, who visited him in the White House or at Camp David regularly.
But George W. has become an outspoken advocate of a White House bid by Jeb. “The one person who is really, really trying to get Jeb to run is George W.,” said the family insider. “He’s talking it up all the time.”
The former president lobbied Jeb when the two saw each other in Dallas several weeks ago, but he acknowledged with a laugh that his pressure could backfire. “I don’t think he liked it that his older brother was pushing him,” Mr. Bush told Fox News afterward.
None of that means Jeb Bush will run. He has said he will decide by the end of the year, and could simply be keeping the possibility open to enhance his influence on the political stage. To some who have spoken with him in recent months, he has not exhibited the same fire that his father and brother did at this stage.
Advisers to Mr. Bush said he has not authorized anyone to line up money or people to work for him. Some of the positions he has taken on immigration, taxes and education are at odds with the prevailing orthodoxy of his party. He knows he would have to find a way to distance himself from some of the unpopular decisions of his father, and especially of his brother, while overcoming broader Bush fatigue.
And he has said publicly he does not want to run if it means getting caught in the “vortex of a mud fight,” acutely aware of the perils of bringing his family into the harsh light of modern politics. Columba was once stopped by customs agents for not declaring the full value of $19,000 in clothing and jewelry she bought in Paris, and their daughter Noelle was arrested on a prescription drug fraud charge a dozen years ago.
“He has certainly not given anyone I’m aware of the ability to have conversations with potential donors or staff to keep his powder dry,” said Sally Bradshaw, a longtime adviser. “That doesn’t mean people don’t call us and say we want Jeb to run. But he has not given a green light to that.”
Having said that, Mr. Bush has been active on the campaign trail, effectively building up chits. He has appeared at more than 35 campaign events for such figures as Governors Nikki R. Haley of South Carolina, Susana Martinez of New Mexico, Mary Fallin of Oklahoma and Rick Snyder of Michigan and Senate candidates like Joni Ernst in Iowa, Tom Cotton in Arkansas and Cory Gardner in Colorado.
He has cultivated the family network as well, appearing at an anniversary of his father’s administration held in College Station, Tex., last spring and speaking to many other family supporters at his brother’s presidential library outside Dallas several weeks ago. The family believes the party’s money men have been waiting for Jeb and will give him an instant foundation if he runs, making him an establishment favorite against the insurgent conservative wing of the party.
“The Bush network is definitely there, and a lot of good feelings about both 41 and 43 and what they stood for — a lot of that translates to Jeb,” said Mark Langdale, former president of the George W. Bush Foundation who saw him in Dallas. “He had a great record in Florida. He’s somebody who could bring a lot of different groups together. He’s a thoughtful guy.”
In an interview that aired on “This Week” on ABC News on Sunday, George P. Bush said that he thought it was “more than likely” that his father would run. “If you had asked me a few years back, I would have said it was less likely,” he said.
Friends and relatives took notice when Jeb Bush told a reporter during a campaign swing for his son that his wife would support a bid should he make one. Jeb Bush Jr. said that was important. “She’s not a big fan of politics and all the ugly things that go along with it, especially as it seems like it’s gotten worse with every passing cycle,” he said. “But she loves Dad and she loves the country, and I think she’ll be supportive.”
Jeb Bush Jr. said his father would make a decision after next week’s midterm elections, informed by experience no other possible candidate has had.
“If there’s one guy out there who knows how to run a presidential campaign, it’s definitely him,” he said. “He’s been around it, really, since 1980. He understands the full-court press.”


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Jeb 'moving forward' on 2016...
Extended Bush clan rallying behind prospect...

Monday, October 27, 2014

Rhoads: The eccentric journey of Jeb Bush

By Mark Rhoads -

Once upon a time many years ago I had a more favorable opinion of Jeb Bush than I had of his father or his older brother. But my opinion changed in recent years as the opinions of Jeb Bush have become more confused. Now a family source says Jeb Bush is serious about running to be the third member of his family to seek the office of president. But he has yet to state a clear reason he wants to run that is not murky and full of questions as to his motivation.

Jeb is now 61 years old and he has not held any office in more than 7 years. Nor has he been a highly visible leader of his party in opposition to President Obama during his semi-retirement years.

So is there any core vision that Jeb Bush has to offer that sets him apart in some unique way? Or has he been eclipsed in the last 7 years by younger and more energetic party conservatives who rely on their own merits rather than a family name? Can Jeb offer new leadership or does he not realize that time and tide wait for no man?

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Comments


Joe said...
What Rick Scott has had to do to fix Florida shows us just how inept Jeb was as governor.

Reply Monday, October 27, 2014 at 10:09 AM



Mark Weyermuller said...
To answer your question
No
He cannot offer leadership!
He is a bad candidate at this point.
Especially with his support of common core, he is not a republican of a conservative. Maybe he will change. We can only hope.

Reply Monday, October 27, 2014 at 10:12 AM



Never give up said...
Another trial balloon for Bush.
We Republicans need a candidate with no pre-existing baggage, and one young enough to appeal to Generation Xers and Millennials.

Reply Monday, October 27, 2014 at 11:12 AM


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WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HILLARY AND EL JEB? CANKLES!


by AWD | 10-27-14

The Republican Elite, of course, love El Jeb! Republican Elite rinosaur Henry Kissinger (I thought he died in the 60’s) says about El Jeb:
“He would be outstanding. He is someone who is experienced, moderate and thoughtful.”

Horrible former President George W Bush said his brother El Jeb Bush is leaning towards throwing his sombrero into the ring to be the next horrible President. That just makes AWD so happy I could sh*t!

Like the old saying goes, ‘a turd in the hand is worth more than every Bush in the White House.’

Why would anyone except illegal aliens, lobbyists, and Wall Street types ever vote for another Bush? The first Bush president was, read my lips, bad. W stands for Worse. What could an amnesty for illegals pushing, Common Core loving, big-government worshiping candidate like El Jeb do for America? The same thing his family and Congress have been doing since Reagan. Destroying this once-great nation!

There is no difference between the Clintons and Bushes. Maybe Jeb’s cankles aren’t as impressive as Hillary’s, I don’t know. But George W Bush calls Bubba Clintoon his ‘brother from another mother.’

Barbara Bush calls Bubba her “black sheep son.” I guess Clinton humps sheep, too. Both families are one in the same and make AWD want to ralph!

The Republican Elite, of course, love El Jeb! Republican Elite rinosaur Henry Kissinger (I thought he died in the 60’s) says about El Jeb:
“He would be outstanding. He is someone who is experienced, moderate and thoughtful.”

Sounds like what he would also say about Hillary Clintoon!

I don’t want my President to be moderate or thoughtful! I want someone like Ted Cruz who isn’t afraid to kick some Democrat/Republican (same thing) ass and get government under control! I want my girlfriend to be moderate (in her morals) and thoughtful (about baking me a pie).

Hasn’t the Republican wussypants Elite learned with liberals Bob Dole, Juan McPain and Romney that moderate, Democrat-lite candidates DO NOT WIN? Democrats will NEVER support El Jeb over Hillary. And that goes for Mezcans, too! Party of Stupid!

AWD has gone on record and I say again that I will NEVER, EVER, EVER VOTE FOR ANOTHER BUSH! I ALSO WON’T VOTE FOR THE NEXT REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT RINO SERVED UP TO GET SMOKED BY THE NEXT DEMOCRAT ON ELECTION DAY! THEY CAN ALL KISS MY ASS!

I’ll sit here in my beloved Lone Star State just John Galtin’ away waiting for the collapse. After 8 years of Imam Hussein, America cannot endure a Hillary nor El Jeb! Minus the cankles, Hillary and El Jeb are one in the same! Liberal idiots from another mother.

Read more at http://angrywhitedude.com/2014/10/wh...OkqkHHy05RO.99

http://www.alipac.us/f12/republicans...99/index2.html